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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24695815, member: 26430&quot;]Does anyone know when the earliest Pudicitia reverse of this type was produced?</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like it was used at least as early as the Adoptive Period, for Empresses Faustina and Sabina.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have photos of two Herennia Etruscilla coins, both of this type, but I think I sold them. (I keep most of my coins in the safety deposit box so I can&#039;t be sure without checking...)</p><p>[ATTACH]1576327[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH]1576328[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here&#039;s one of her son, Herennius Etruscus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576330[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And an Adventus Antoninianus for her husband, Trajan Decius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576331[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To round out the family tree, here&#039;s a Sestertius (15.12g, 27-30mm, 12h) of their other son, Hostilian, that I&#039;ve had for a long time but never photographed before:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576334[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This next one was purchased from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8276598" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8276598" rel="nofollow">Harlan Berk BBS 215, Lot 210</a>. It&#039;s not described as such, but I strongly suspect it&#039;s from the Bill Behnen Collection of Trajan Decius and Family. (It&#039;s listed as ex-C. Blom, 3 Feb 1964, which is where &amp; when Behnen bought a lot of his Decius coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>For those interested in the coinage of Herennia Etruscilla, Trajan Decius, and their sons Herennius Etruscus and Hostilian, I recommend perusing Bill Behnen Collection of the Decii, cataloged by Curtis Clay and sold in several sales by HJB 2017-2018: <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_xiii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_xiii" rel="nofollow">Gemini XIII</a>, <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_numismatic_auctions_xiv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/gemini_numismatic_auctions_xiv" rel="nofollow">Gemini XIV</a>, and, for the Provincials, <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/201st_buy_or_bid_sale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/201st_buy_or_bid_sale" rel="nofollow">HJB 201</a> and HJB 202 (unfortunately the catalog isn&#039;t online, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=behnen&amp;company=139&amp;auction=4521&amp;order=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=behnen&amp;company=139&amp;auction=4521&amp;order=2" rel="nofollow">only the lots, 351-396</a>).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1576333[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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